L. Neil Smith Quotes

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

Government is waging war against the people.

Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

I'm tired of living in a police state.

[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.

Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

Victim disarmament types are sick, sick people, who'd rather see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose than see her with a gun in her hand.

And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you but then you'll have to watch your back. All the time.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.

Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity - and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

I'm tired of being considered property.

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.

Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.

I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.

As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.

Great men don't 'move to the center' - great men move the center!

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!

I'm as radical as libertarians come.

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

Gun Control is mind control.

Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.

Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.

Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish.

There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.